Word: complain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...live ones you got to worry about, not the dead ones. They don't complain about the bumpy ride...
They don't complain if I get there late." Charlie drove the bodies up the East River, which fairly boiled this summer day, then through The Bronx, past signs for truck parts and cigarettes. The landscape was unrelievedly dismal until Charlie crossed the bridge to City Island, off the flank of The Bronx in Long Island Sound. Here there were bright, scrubbed storefronts, fishermen in slickers, the air of New England, and a ferry with a happy crew. Lloyd Roberts, an engineer, remarked on Charlie's load, "These passengers are the best. They don't pay, they...
Even more than most readers, businessmen are apt to complain about stories written about them. Considering the press's "spotty record" for fairness and accuracy, New England Business magazine lamented in a recent editorial that "somewhere in the deep past, the journalistic trade decided that it was unprofessional" to show an article in advance to its principal source. Founded in 1952, New England Business (circ. 45,000) is now proudly violating that rule, though " sometimes this leads to difficult conversations." It finds businessmen grateful, but the practice is not a total guarantee of accuracy: "One company reviewed a complete...
Harvard would do well to make that statement also Some minority students complain that the dearth of minority faculty staff and fellow students makes them feel uncomfortable in the classroom or in the locker room. Harvard's refusal to set up a Third World Center or to even put a simple line on the Freshman Week calendar for minority student events makes many feel that claims may not all be justified, but a University endorsement of fundamental civil rights, such as a King memorial holiday would symbolize, is certainly in order...
...movies, alcohol and dogs are banned from the 18-mile-long island, and Government officials are not permitted to spend the night among the 226 residents, most of whom still claim pure Hawaiian ancestry. On the mainland, small ironies continue to tinge a region's complexion. New Yorkers complain about the Hispanization of the Big Apple, while New Mexicans of Spanish descent grump that their state is becoming too Anglo...